The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
ALAN KAYIn success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
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Bad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you’ll rule the world.
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